“The racial laws were the worst mistake of a leader, Mussolini, who
however did good things in so many other areas,” Berlusconi, who is
angling for a return to politics in elections next month, said on the
sidelines of a ceremony marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Milan.

Mussolini, of course, after some initial resistance eventually allow the deportation of around 7,500 Italian Jews to the death camps.

Sure he wasn't worse than Hitler, he just chose to ally himself with him.

Sort of like saying, other than a few crimes and getting other people to murder for him, Charles Manson is rather entertaining.